In a not-so-surprising turn of non-events, some unflattering information about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been made public.
The dispute stemmed from a lawsuit charging that in 2003 and 2004, as a student at Harvard, Mr. Zuckerberg stole the idea and some of the computer source code for Facebook from some fellow students. They were planning a networking site of their own and had hired Mr. Zuckerberg to help with the programming.
And now Mr. Zuckerberg wants that information taken down. While we know this is different than posting your favorite books and relationship status on a site you think is fairly private and then having that information made public, it's pretty funny. When you put yourself out there, whether founding a social networking site and becoming a bazillionaire by age 23, or putting your own information up on one, people who are not your "friends" are probably going to learn a few things about you. But it's not up to us to decide what's ethical in the world of social networking. We'll leave that up to Rupert Murdoch.
[Via The New York Times]
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